PTOLEMY / ANCIENT GEOGRAPHER || Historical , geography, scientists , science

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PTOLEMY / ANCIENT GEOGRAPHER


Born in Egypt of Greek ancestry , Claudius Ptolemy (ca A.D 90 -168 ) created a body of working synthesis the Greco - Roman world's knowledge of cartography , mathematics, and astronomy . His eight - volume Geography offered instructions and information for preparing a world atlas , including a world map and 26 regional maps . He also refined a number of a map projections and provided a list of some 8,000 place names and their coordinates . Almagest , his 13 volume treaties on astronomy,

Posited a geocentric model of the solar system , and his four book Tetrabiblos tried to reconcile astrology with more scientific matters scientific matters . Ptolemy's influence on Geography and cartography spread through Arabic translations made by islamic scholars and influenced Near Eastern and Western Geography and cartographic thought for centuries.


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